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Today GarnTec is specialist for the production of paper yarns, paper cords, binding twines, decoration yarns as well as for the area of the cable industry swellable yarns, swellable yarns with paper inlay, swellable tapes, separating tapes and cable insulating paper for all kind of cable applications.

October 2000 From the spinning mill of the Julius Glatz GmbH the new company GarnTec was founded

2000 ISO-Certification 14001

1998 Start of the production of paper tapes

1997 ISO-Certification 9001

1996 Start of the production of swellable yarns, swellable yarns with paper inlay and swellable tapes

1992 Start of the production of paper cords for the cable industry

1945 After the destruction of the paper spinning mill during the Second World War the reconstruction was started. Paper cable yarns for paper-isolated telephone cables have become main sales products.

1914 Paper yarns replace textile yarns due to lack of raw materials

1912 The paper spinning mill moved from Julius Glatz into the buildings of Hemmer machine factory AG. Developing and patenting of the production of paper yarns by Dr. Erwin Glatz. Start of the production of paper cable yarns and vine binding twines.